A belated Women’s Day tribute, the play is based on a story by Vijayadan Detha, Nyari Nyari Maryada, where the women surprise men who treat them like objects, and Euripides’ or Dario Fo’s Medea.
Euripides’ Medea is one of the most horrific and powerful of the Greek tragedies, a play of dark revenge that is dominated by the voice of Medea, the princess who helped Jason, her husband, who now spurns her for younger women. She retaliates by murdering her own children, and thus, in a sense ‘killing’ him and herself.
Untitled swings between the two stories, giving voice to the woman’s case. It begs the question, should a woman hit back? Is revenge justified?
